Healey Keynotes

These books are never overdue!

The Healey Library has over 25,000 eBooks available through the catalog. Search the catalog and access books through our eBook subscription services as well as individual titles. Some examples of the titles available are:

Advanced Nursing Skills: Principals and Practice written by Molly Courtenay.
from NetLibrary

In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disastersing written by Merrill R. Chapman . 
from books 24x7

Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 edited by Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee.
from Cambridge Collections Online

VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever edited by Jim Craddock.
from Gale Virtual Reference Library

In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean written by Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean
from eBrary

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus by the editors of American heritage dictionary.
from xreferplus

Other sources of free eBooks include:

Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

New Library Resident

Late last spring, the Massachusetts Studies Project (MSP) began to share office space on the 5th floor, in order to collaborate more closely with Curriculum Resource Center on educational initiatives and with the Healey Library Archives on issues around the cultural heritage materials we're documenting.

Joanne Riley is the director of the MSP, which is part of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in the Graduate College of Education here at UMass and is co-sponsored by the Healey Library, along with the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.

The mission of the MSP is to ground educators and students in their own communities through local history, local culture and local environmental studies.  One initiative of the MSP, managed by Heather Cole, is the Mass. Memories Road Show. It is a cultural heritage project where Massachusetts communities are visited, and people are invited to share photos and stories. The photos are scanned and the stories are recorded at a public event, then everything is added to an online database. The goal of the project is to visit all 351 communities in Massachusetts.

Back to School

Whether you are new to UMass Boston or have been here for years, make sure you know about all the wonderful resources and services available at the Healey Library.

Did you know . . .

• your UMB ID allows you to use other academic libraries in Massachusetts, such as Boston University, MIT and Northeastern?
  
  • Read access to other libraries for more information.

• there is collection of children's books and teacher resources in the library for education students?
  • Check out the Curriculum Resource Center.

• the library subscribes to over 150 databases and indexes which provide access to thousands of magazines and newspapers on hundreds of topics?
  • Look at the list of databases and indexes.

• you can print 200 pages each semester from any library computer for free?
  • See the previous post for more information about Pharos printing.

• the library will get you any article or book as long as you have a citation for it?
  • Check out Interlibrary Loan.

• you can get help with your research anytime of day or night?
  • Go to Ask 24/7.